Category: Technology

  • Daily Anatomy app – Android version

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    I learnt a bit of Java and Android programming a month or two ago and built the Android version of the Daily Anatomy app. It’s now up on the Google Play store for your favourite Android device. The app will give you an anatomical question every day, will record your total score, and keep track…

  • Animations

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    The animations for Embryology at a Glance that Steve Atherton has been creating have started going up on YouTube. We’ll keep working on them and keep adding to the channel. The animations are intended to support the text and illustrations in the textbook. Go and have a look:

  • Daily Anatomy App updates

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    I thought I should update you guys on what I’ve been doing with the Daily Anatomy app since its release in January, and what I’m planning to do. My main job has been to write batches of new questions and add them to the ever growing pool of questions that the app draws from each…

  • Daily Anatomy – iPhone app

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    The Daily Anatomy app went live on the Apple App Store in January, and the leaderboard is slowly filling up with students. I’ll be adding batches of questions regularly so the bank will keep getting bigger, and the daily question is chosen at random. Hopefully people will find it fun, challenging and helpful! I’ve started…

  • Daily Anatomy Question app at release version

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    Kim and I have been working on a final icon for the app, and the app itself is now at a build release that I’m sending out to testers. I’ll see what testing brings over the next week or so, and if all is good the next stage will be submission to the app store.…

  • Daily Anatomy Questions iPhone App

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    This year I’ve been working on a new iPhone app, and it’s getting close to being ready for release. This is the Daily Anatomy app, and it will present a randomly selected anatomy multiple choice question every day. Each answer includes a description about why the correct answer is correct, with some associated anatomy tidbits.…

  • Blue tit chicks in the TweetyPi bird box

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    Have you been keeping up with the TweetyPi bird box through its Twitter account? We had some blue tits nest in it and some eggs were laid a couple of weeks ago. Today two of them hatched! Wow, they’re tiny. Follow the @tweetypibirdbox here.

  • Running with Pebble

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    I went for a run with my Pebble yesterday. Being a geek and a triathlete I collect huge amounts of data from my training and have been using Garmin & Polar devices for many years, but as I was running with my iPhone anyway (something I rarely do but needed to be contactable) I thought…

  • Android app: Skull Osteology

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    I finally got round to converting the iOS Skull Osteology app (and web resource) into an Android app, test it, and get it up on the Google Play Store. It should work on Android phones but I haven’t tested it on tablets. The aim of this app is to give students the key details of…

  • Tweety Pi Bird Box

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    Annabel and I got our prototype working for the bird box, and I ordered a cheap passive infra red (PIR) sensor for a couple of quid. I spent a bit of time wiring it up to the Pi’s GPIO pins and used the Raspberry Pi Spy’s excellent guide to work out how to trigger and…